
HARBOR CITIES 

OF THE 

WORLD 



A Collection of Photos 

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Harbor, Dock and Wharf 
Plans 



Planning Contest 

Canal Subdivision 

Richmond 

1914 



COPYRIGHT, 1914 
H. C. CUTTING 



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Permission to use any of the matter in this book must be obtained from 
H. C. Cutting-, 777, 779. 781, 783 Monadnock Bldg-., San Francisco, Cal. 



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Famous Harbor Cities 



3N the following pages we present pictures of the world's 
most famous harbor cities. 

In studying these plans one will notice that invariably 
the business centers in these cities are grouped around the 
harbor front. 

While the immediate waterfront is utilized for ware- 
houses, docks and wharves, the adjoining few blocks are, as 
a rule, occupied by wholesale business houses. Adjoining 
these again, the retail business section commences with its 
tall office buildings, stores, theatres and hotels. 

This holds true of nearly every harbor city, there being 
a potent reason for this. 

Waterfronts need warehouses, docks, wharves, etc. 

The goods received at the wharves, docks and ware- 
houses are absorbed by the wholesale houses. 

The wholesale houses in turn distribute the goods among 
the retail houses. 

So the sequence of relative building activity in harbor 
cities is as follows : 

Immediate Waterfront — 
Industrial, Docks, Wharves, Warehouses. 

Adjoining this — 
Wholesale Houses. 

Adjoining these — 
Retail business Center. 

(Business Centers shown in pink) 



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The photos of harbor cities and docks were collected at 
quite some expense. 

The object is to furnish contestants some ideas of what 
other harbor cities are doing. 

If it will help the contestants in furnishing ideas its 
purpose has been fulfilled. 



NOTE: — The figures on property 
value given herein were obtained from 
the Secretaries of the Chambers of 
Commerce of the respective cities. 

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BUSINESS PORTION OF PHILADELPHIA 

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CITY PLAN OF PHILADELPHIA 

Philadelphia's streetplan is on the checkerboard order. Its street- 
plan is not in accordance with modern city planning. 

Adjoining its waterfront is the wholesale district and within a few 
blocks of the waterfront the retail business center commences. 

Value of Waterfront property not given 

Value of Wholesale property $20.00 per square foot up. 

Value of Retail property $20.00 to $200.00 per square foot 



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HARBOR PLAN OF PHILADELPHIA 

Photograph of a scheme for the proper planning of Philadelphia' 
Harbor. 

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The business section is grouped around the harbor basin. Docks and 
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Value of Waterfront property $1,500.00 per front foot 

Value of Wholesale property 2,000.00 per front foot 

Value of Retail business property .... 4,000.00 per front foot 
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Buffalo on Lake Erie has good harbor facilities. Its streetplan is well 
laid out. Broad streets radiating from a common center. 

Value of Waterfront property $ 500.00 per front foot 

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Value of Retail business property ....$5,000.00 per front foot 
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Boston's harbor front presents a busy spectacle of docks and wharves 
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Value of Waterfront property $ 4.00 per SQUARE FOOT 

Value of Wholesale property 25.00 per square foot 

Value of Best Retail business property 325.00 per square foot 

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TWO WELL-KNOWN FOREIGN PORTS 

It is interesting to note that both these cities are planning basins to 
relieve the congested condition of their harbors. 

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GLASGOW AND SOUTHAMPTON 

Two English harbors which are being enlarged right along. The 
black solids represent basins. 



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HAMBURG AND BREMEN 

The two most important European Harbors. 
Hamburg's Harbor is shown in full on page 11. 

Bremerhaven shown here is the port of Bremen at the mouth of the 
river Weser. Note the vast extensions proposed for harbor developments. 

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FRANKFORT ON MAIN, GERMANY 

An excellently planned city. The energetic and progressive work of 
its city fathers on canals and waterways has resulted in the greatest 
prosperity for the city. While Frankfort is an inland city it is the 
gathering point of millions of tons of freight, the majority of which is 
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MANNHEIM. 

Mannheim has an area ol-abuiit lH,-*J5f> aeres. and a population of llW-,370. 
It is the fifth largest town in Germany, and its rapid development has princi- 
pally been caused by the importance of the Rhine Harbour, which important 
is largely, although not entirely, <lu<> to the progressive policy of the I'sty 
Couiur.il with regard to water communications. There has been a great 
development of building in Mannheim since the year 1KD0, and there have 
been several extensions of the town. 1'iUdwigsiiai'en, on the opposite side of 
the river, had M) years ago only one street. To-day there are 90,000 
inhabitants. 




Genera! View of Mannheim. 

It is interesting to note that as early as. !(>(>:$ the old city within the walls 
was laid out on' the "chessboard" plan, the streets not being named, but 
lettered or numbered. 

'.In the year H)00 Mannheim was divided into four districts for building 
purposes, and new building regulations wore made. In the different districts 
there: 'are varving. percentages of the sites which may be 'covered with 
'buildings, and. the heights of the buildings' are likewise regulated 



MANNHEIM, GERMANY 

A progressive city with an eye for city planning. 

It attained its present greatness thru the progressive policy of the City 
Council with regard to water communications. 

Germany has now the most perfect system of waterways of any 
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MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO 

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PLAN OF DOCKS 



Plan of dry docks for 1,000 foot 
ships which may also be used as 
berthing place for shipping when 
not in use as dry dock. 

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proposed by R. A. C. Smith, Com- 
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South, Brooklyn. 

Ships can at once go into dry 
dock upon completion of their 
voyage, and while undergoing 
repairs unload and reload their 
cargoes at absolutely no loss of 
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COPYRIGHT BY FRANK H. NOWELL. 1913 

RICHMOND TEN YEARS FROM NOW ? No— but SEATTLE, WASH. 

Looking down this main street one involuntarily compares it with Cutting Boulevard. The 
hills at the foot of this street resemble Richmond's Hills, composing its residence section. 

The outjutting piece of land would compare again with the similar Richmond promontary 
which will accommodate the outer wharves, docks and ferries. 

Value of Retail property $4,500.00 per front foot 

Value of Wholesale property 1,000.00 per front foot 

Value of Waterfront property 2,000.00 per front foot 

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Drawing which shows Richmond's strategic location on San Francisco 
Bay opposite the Golden Gate, her new Inner Harbor bsing easily 
accessible to all vessels passing into the bay. 



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From San Francisco Examiner, March 28, 1914. 



Cutting Holdings 
Are Focal Center 



Harbor and Tunnel Building Make 
Canal Subdivision Important. 

(Special Dispatch to "The Examiner") 

RICHMOND, — With the completion 
of the new municipal tunnel, wharves 
and highway a great percentage of the 
people entering Richmond from the west 
side of San Francisco bay will come by 
this route. The need of communication 
by Richmond through its own facilities, 
with its natural deep water, has long 
been felt, and the overcoming of the hill 
barrier by means of the tunnel and high- 
way will permanently establish the line 
of travel. 

This congested travel will be confined 
from the water front until it reaches the 
north portal of the tunnel by the confines 
of the roadway. At the latter point, 
however, traffic will spead in all direc- 
tions. 

The City Council, realizing that most 
of this travel will be north and east over 
the streets of the Canal subdivision, or- 
dered that entire district improved, and 
the city engineer is busy planning and 
preparing plans and specifications for the 
laying of sewers and improving of all 
the streets. 

WILL BE FOCAL POINT. 

That the Canal subdivision will become 
the focal point of practically all freight 
brought the Panama canal is no longer 
a theory, but a fact, for the tax upon har- 
bor facilities of San Francisco and the 
limit upon warehousing along the Embar- 
cadero, due to the excessive cost of pro- 
perty, leaves no alternative. 

The cost of property in the Canal sub- 
division, if it comes to erection of ware- 
houses and factories and the running of 
them, is far below that asked in San 
Francisco. 

Taking also into consideration that 
all freight can be transferred direct from 
steamers into transcontinental trains 
in Richmond, without the loss of time 



the freight is being subjected to in San 
Francisco harbor, there are ideal condi- 
tions for rapid transportation and quick 
elimination of accumulated freight not 
found even in the best harbors of the 
world. 

LIKE N. Y. BATTERY 

The ultimate development of Rich- 
mond's inner harbor and the Canal sub- 
division has been very fittingly compared 
to New York's Battery and the adjacent 
warehouses. 

Brooks Island, decorated with the im- 
posing statue of Liberty at the entrance 
to New York harbor, presents the same 
spectacle as Liberty Island, while the 
lower part of the Canal subdivision would 
be analogous with the lower part 
of the Battery in New York and its con- 
tinuation along the East river. 

Any one familiar with the shore line 
of lower Manhattan cannot help reco- 
gnizing the almost startling similarity 
between these two harbor projects. 

HAS BRILLIANT FUTURE. 

Of course without freight and shipping 
Richmond's harbor front would never de- 
velop, but in the face of the opening of 
the Panama canal, which will bring mil- 
lions of tons of freight to Richmond's 
shores; with Richmond's own industrial 
development, which is without a parallel 
in the industrial history of the world, 
who could doubt the future of this giant 
young city, which has swung itself 
within the short space of ten years 
to first place among the industrial cities 
of the entire Pacific Coast and to 
second place among the ports of Cali- 
fornia? 

It is therefore not only plausible, but 
a fact to be reckoned with, that within 
another ten years Richmond is likely to 
have a population of 100.000 people, and 
its industrial and harbor aspect will have 
changed perhaps not to the magnitude 
of New York, but it will have become a 
harbor of the same importance to the 
Pacific Coast as New York is to the At- 
lantic coast. 

Richmond is writing history with a 
strong and progressive hand, guided by 
the indefatigable energies of men like 
Cutting, Wernse, Colonel Reese and 
others who have made the future of 
Richmond their life issue. 



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H. C. CUTTING 

Member 
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H. W. WERNSE 

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